Asia Bibi Officially ‘Freed’ From Jail.

Aasia Bibi, who spent eight years on death row for blasphemy, has been freed, her lawyer has said.

Pakistani Christian woman Aasia Bibi, who spent eight years on death row for blasphemy, has been freed from jail, her lawyer said.

“She has been freed. I’ve been told that she is on a plane but nobody knows where she will land,” her lawyer Saif-ul-Malook said in a message to AFP news agency on Wednesday.

Bibi, 53, was flown on Wednesday night to a facility in the capital, Islamabad, from an undisclosed location for security reasons, two senior government officials told the Associated Press.

Last week, Pakistan‘s Supreme Court overturned Bibi’s conviction and ordered her release, but she remained imprisoned as the government agreed to allow a review following right-wing protests over the bitterly divisive case.

A release order arrived on Wednesday at the prison in the central city of Multan, where Bibi was held, a prison official told AFP.

Her husband, Ashiq Masih, had appealed for Britain or the United States to grant the family asylum, while Malook, Bibi’s Defence attorney fled to the Netherlands.